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Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

that; that Ed Guthman book [Robert Kennedy in His Own Words]. B: Yes. It has him saying in 1964 that he believes in the domino theory; JFK believed in it; we all believed in it. That isn't quite true; we didn't all believe in it. But most of us did, and he did
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/16/1967 (Item)

the President the first part of this wk to discuss textiles and the Kennedy on tariffs. * To Fish Roommate join Senator Jennings Randolph Senator Robert Byrd ^H^HHO^HR Phillip S. "Sam" Hughes , Bureau of the Budget HHHHHHHMHHh Alfred B. Fitt, General Counsel

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT P. GRIFFIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Griffin's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 MG: Senator, let's start with a survey of your association with Lyndon Johnson. RG: Did you know him before you came
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Griffin, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1923-
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert P. Griffin

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/3/1964 (Item)

Detroit Walter Reuther, James Farley , NYC Robert F. Kennedy, NYC Senator Edward Kennedy, Boston, Mass. (b. Expenditure Code Nov 3RD Times for 1964 Lem Lynda in President by cars personal Mrs Bess Johnson Ald President LBJ and Co-op

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that because of the President. G: Let's talk a minute about the national defense needs. Did this impair the movement of troops? C: By and large [Robert] McNamara took the position that he could go either way. If we wanted the emergency board, he could

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

him. I came out of the Kennedy background. It's kind of ironic, as a matter of fact, because I was one of the first so-called Kennedy intellectuals in the fifties, in 1956. work for John Kennedy when he was here i n ~1assachusetts I went
Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

experiences. He realized that if something bad happened to him or someone close to him, it was happening to tens of millions of other people, and he wanted to do something to help them. G: When you first told President Johnson that President Kennedy before
; trying to interest LBJ in China; an Eye Institute separate from the National Institutes of Health; community Mental Health Centers and Mike Gorman; the Family Planning Services Act; Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with LBJ; Robert Kennedy; assessment

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he didn't want to be the vice
temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT CALVERTY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McComb PLACE: Chief Justice Calvert's office in the Supreme Court Building, Austin, Texas. Tape 1 of 1 M: To start off with, let's start with you. Where were you born, when and where did you get your
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Calvert, Robert W.
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb
Robert W. Calvert

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Sure, between LBJ and RFK. Now, Robert Kennedy met with the President shortly after that March 31 speech, I think on April 3, the day before this trip to New York, and evidently commended him on his speech and commended his statesmanship
to work on the Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign; turnover on LBJ's staff.

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the relationship between the President and Attorney General Kennedy during Robert Kennedy's campaign for the Senate from New York? Did he talk with you? L: Did the President talk with me? F: Yes. L: No. F: He did come up here and work for him. L: I
in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

, though? B: If she did, she didn't show it any way that I could judge her. G: The story is told that there were two meetings between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and his people, among them Sam Rayburn, and during one of those meetings he [Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, where .we went ahead and had a meeting. At this time we told Robert Kennedy that we would like to work for the candidate, John F. Kennedy, but we would work at it by ourselves. That we didn't want to work under any state Democratic setup because we

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

perceived to be some foot-dragging. I think one member of the original cabinet of President Kennedy that had difficulty with it was the Postmaster General, Ed Day. Ed talked to me on a number of occasions and to others in the White House and he felt
to the Vatican during JFK's administration; difficulty managing the great number of lower-level appointments; Robert Kennedy's proposal to raise the salary of Justice Department lawyers; civil rights and the Democratic Party in 1962; Southern Democratic

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I INTERVID~ INTERVIHJEE: ROBERT
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Strauss, Robert Schwarz, 1918-2014
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
Robert S. Strauss

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

'? We moved up here the first of January of 1961 and served in the Vice-President's office there. As a matter of fact, he was so short on personnel that the Army recalled Juanita Roberts and me to active service. She was a major in the WACS. and I

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

involved, as I see it, to do all these things. B: At that time whom did you deal with in the administration? Did you talk in those years, beginning in 1961, directly with the attorney general, Robert Kennedy? H: No, we were dealing more with John Doar
white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/25/1965 (Item)

Reedy's office Dean BM's Rusk Welch Secretary Robert McNamara to office at March White Carol House 25 1965 Thursday Welch Marvin the Mildred Watson Education Stegall on the Bill Hill working returning w/ his call Mrs John F Kennedy

Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

spent $9. 5 billion on poverty in his last year, Kennedy $12. 5 billion, and Johnson $28 billion. Manpower training cost from 3 to 4 to 12 billion in the same period. ) The President: It is not right to say that we are not moving fast enough because

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the President asked me to serve as a member of the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. S: And, to this moment, today, you are still sitting on that commission? LBJ Presidential Library http
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Patricia Roberts Harris

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/23/1966 (Item)

, AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C. Kenneth Fiester, Labor Press Assoc, AFL-CIO, Washington Robert H. Fox, The Chronicle. Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council, Cincinnati John Garrett, Boilerworkers-Blacksmiths Record; Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/13/1964 (Item)

- Exec . Dir . , America n Municipa l Assoc. Burton F . Mille r - Vic e Pres. , Amer . Roa d Builders' Assoc . W. Ra y Rogers - Pres . , Assoc . Gen . Contractor s o f America Robert O . Swai n - Pres. ^ Internationa l Roa d Federation ' H. E. Humphreys

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/10/1966 (Item)

House Dav SATURDAY Af-MvMytmrttiWt-vttttfdhy) LD Casey Ireland, House Banking & Currency Committee David Kennedy, Chairman of the Bd, Continental Ill Bank of Chicago Raymond J. Lapin, Pres, Bankers Mortgage Co. of Calif. Mrs. Mike Manatos and 2

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/12/1965 (Item)

. Jordan Senator Ralph Yarborough \ Senator Robert F. Kennedy Senator Milto n R. Young Senator Warren G . Magnuson Senator Mike Mansfield UNABLE TO ATTEND: Senator Everett Dirksen Senator Georg e S . McGovern Senator Peter H. Dominick, Senator Joseph Josep

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: This is extensive background, and I'm very sorry I must out of time--your time--limit some of my questions more to the 1961 area of your service in Defense. Would you briefly define for me the responsibilities of deputy secretary of defense? N: When Mr. [Robert

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said, when I spoke about [John F.] Kennedy's support in the Senate--I said I thought a number of Senators wanted to support Kennedy and he said, "Yes, but the trouble is he's got all of the minnows and none of the whales." The whales generally sat

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-or-less the final break when Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency? C: I'm not sure that you've put the question in the right way or that I understand it. Do you want to try that again? M: Was there something that really brought it into the open
Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I have There were others the same day. That evening was the evening that Senator [Robert] Kennedy was wounded in Los Angeles, and the following day the activities were interrupted for that reason. F: Yes, I remember. T: And although we finished

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the preliminary work that had been done in the Kennedy Administration that I thought possibly the President wasn't familiar with. The pbverty program very essentially started out by having Robert Kennedy chair an administrative committee of cabinet or sub-cabinet

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, June 2000," LBJ Library (Item)

by these artists. What compels them is a necessity to Back Row: Torkwase Dyson, Arleen Polite, Lillian Blades, David Newton, Channel Guice, Roy LaGrone, Marie Cochran, Robert Pruitt, Rejina Thomas Middle Row: Harry Middleton, Janine Jackson, Angelbert Metoyer

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] Shiel of Chicago, in turn a friend of Bishop [Robert Emmet] Lucey of Texas. I had never met Johnson. But I had known well his chief Aubrey Williams, who was also a Texan, who was the [national] head of the Youth Administration. One day Aubrey Williams
with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.

Telephone conversation # 3381, sound recording, LBJ and STEPHEN SMITH, 5/11/1964, 12:27PM (Item)

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS' VIEWS OF LBJ; RAISING FUNDS FOR JFK LIBRARY; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' CONTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBLE APPEARANCE BY JACQUELINE KENNEDY, BILLY GRAHAM, LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON AT NORTH CAROLINA EVENT; JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, SR.'S HEALTH

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/14/1966 (Item)

, Bureau of Reclamation, Dept of Interior Duncan, Robert B Congressman Dubrow, Morgan , Office of the Assistant Secretary of Interior- Wate r and Power Dunn, Oscar --VP, General Electric Company, Erie, Pa First, Williamson L -- Ofc of Cong Foley Foley

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

"This is it."? H: Well, I didn't have any advance notice. I had been talking-- Well, first of all, you know, I came up to see Robert Kennedy, who was then Attorney General. I did not see him; I saw Mr. [Byron] White, who later became Justice White. He was very

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the beginning and the recognition that he would receive as vice president, and he said that with great emphasis. There were no particular stories to the contrary but there had been stories that he and the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, were feuding

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